Joe Gomez to miss start of Liverpool season as Andoni Iraola makes squad admission

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If it goes bad then a bit more but it’s a muscle injury."It’s not massive. I think it will be impossible to have him for the start of the season because we are not so far but it shouldn’t be a lot more.“You’ve seen in these games that we are pretty thin in the centre-back position.

The only centre-backs we have right now are Mor Talla Ndiaye and Ifeanyi Ndukwe who are 18, just arrived at the club and are doing incredibly well."Yesterday [in the 1-0 win against Wrexham], Luke Chambers played there - he’s not a centre-back but he played really well. Until we recover some bodies - I think Jeremy [Jacquet] is ready to go."We will recover Virgil but I’m happy that playing against Sunderland and Wrexham with 18-year-old centre backs, the team has shown composure and solidity at the back and it speaks very well about them."Iraola was asked if he would be happy to enter the new season with his current crop of options within his Liverpool squad and he believes the returning World Cup contingent will provide a significant injection of quality.He added: "Yes a lot of players have surprised me, especially the young players I did not know before.

We will recover players, it would not be good if we played against Newcastle the same 11 we did yesterday."Important players we will get back, they have been at the World Cup. We have done a great job with these players the first two weeks then we have to integrate the new ones slowly.